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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2007 06:51:23 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Michael B Allen <ioplex@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: timers and semtimedop(2)
Message-ID:  <20071101195123.GJ25671@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <78c6bd860711011041o6d10753an663f19389737f84b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <78c6bd860711011041o6d10753an663f19389737f84b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:41:10PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
>I need semtimedop(2). I'm thinking I can just do a semop with a SIGINT may=
be.

I presume you mean SIGALRM.

>Can someone suggest a good method for setting up a timer to deliver
>the signal? What sort of timers does FreeBSD offer?

Assuming you aren't planning on creating a new syscall: man setitimer
There's also kqueue EVFILT_TIMER but that is probably only useful if
you are already using kqueue for other purposes.

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Peter

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